Hello Suse People, and Merry Chistmas to you all. I have decided to install SuSE 10. This time around I want to use LVM to manage my partitions. Tired of running out of space. Having trouble setting up my partitions. If I accept my present partition table I can create an LV and put those physical volumes into it. However, I want to delete one and change others. So when I do that I can't create the LV. It tells me I have to create a partition, do not format it, and make sure it is designated 0x8e. Must have done that 50 times. It will not pick up the other PV's. I have read and followed the admin manual over and over. Downloaded some howto's from the web after doing google searches, and I cannot make this thing do what I want. Could it be a YAST problem??? Anyway, if anyone can give me a tip or two and/or direct me to a document for Dummies I would be very grateful. Bob S. .
On Saturday 24 December 2005 02:16, B Stia wrote:
Hello Suse People, and Merry Chistmas to you all.
I have decided to install SuSE 10. This time around I want to use LVM to manage my partitions. Tired of running out of space. Having trouble setting up my partitions. If I accept my present partition table I can create an LV and put those physical volumes into it.
However, I want to delete one and change others. So when I do that I can't create the LV. It tells me I have to create a partition, do not format it, and make sure it is designated 0x8e. Must have done that 50 times. It will not pick up the other PV's.
I have read and followed the admin manual over and over. Downloaded some howto's from the web after doing google searches, and I cannot make this thing do what I want. Could it be a YAST problem???
Anyway, if anyone can give me a tip or two and/or direct me to a document for Dummies I would be very grateful.
Bob S. .
Hmm, recently I was palying installing gentoo. On their site there is very good article how to install it on LVM, i.e. using commandline tools to create volumes, add them etc. Cheers Sunny
Sunny wrote:
On Saturday 24 December 2005 02:16, B Stia wrote:
Anyway, if anyone can give me a tip or two and/or direct me to a document for Dummies I would be very grateful.
Hmm, recently I was palying installing gentoo. On their site there is very good article how to install it on LVM, i.e. using commandline tools to create volumes, add them etc.
Cheers Sunny
Yeah, I downloaded a howto for command line also. Very explicit and would probably work well. However it would make me sweat profusely setting up partitions from the command line and then use the Yast installer on top of that.
Anyway, I have mostly figured it out in Yast. See my other post. Bob S.
Hello SuSE experts, Since nobody replied, I will update my attempts at mastering LVM, and a few simple questions. I previously wrote:
Hello Suse People, and Merry Chistmas to you all.
I have decided to install SuSE 10. This time around I want to use LVM to manage my partitions. Tired of running out of space. Having trouble setting up my partitions. If I accept my present partition table I can create an LV and put those physical volumes into it.
However, I want to delete one and change others. So when I do that I can't create the LV. It tells me I have to create a partition, do not format it, and make sure it is designated 0x8e. Must have done that 50 times. It will not pick up the other PV's. ...........<snip the rest>...........
The howto's I have weren't very clear so I kept trying different options until I figured it out. The biggest thing was that you Cannot assign a mount point for a partition until the very last stage, after everyting is set up in the LVM. If anyone else needs help for this tricky procedure, (for me anyway) I would be happy to help with a step by step. Now the questions: 1. Why ???? does the partitioner want to label the hard drive ms dos ?? I suppose it is not critical but it just aggravates me and I can't seem to find a way to change it. 2. When using the LVM do you, or do you not, need to create an extended partition? Not anxioux to go through the routine another 3 or 4 times to find out. Hope everybody out there had great Holidays. Bob S.
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